TY - BOOK AU - Berger,Anne-Emmanuelle AU - Porter,Catherine ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - The queer turn in feminism: identities, sexualities, and the theater of gender T2 - Commonalities SN - 9780823253890 AV - HQ1075 .B474 2013 U1 - 305.4201 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Queer theory KW - United States KW - Feminism KW - Gender identity KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Translation of Grand thea^tre du genre; Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-221) and index; Acknowledgments -- Parabasis (before the act) -- Queens and queers : the theater of gender in "America" -- Paradoxes of Visibility in/and contemporary identity politics -- The ends of an idiom, or sexual difference in translation -- Roxana's legacy : feminism and capitalism in the West -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index N2 - More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both "American" and "French," thus simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, she tries to account for their alleged exhaustion and currency on the two sides of the Atlantic UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823253890/ ER -